Film, Religion and Activist Citizens

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Film, Religion and Activist Citizens

An ontology of transformative acts

Milja Radovic, London: Routledge, 2017

Description

Film can be a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural practice through which acts and activism are performed. Going beyond ideological constructs of activism and legal definitions of citizenship, this book offers a novel approach to understanding the ontology of acts and activist citizenship, particularly in the context of their expression through film. The author approaches film as act and focuses on the scene of film as a space that goes beyond representation, constituting its own reality through which activist citizens emerge. By looking at autonomous creative acts through a range of directors’ works from across the world, the author explores both the ontological and ontic dimensions of transformative acts of citizenship. In doing this the author poses the question of whether citizens are stepping out of dominant cultural ideologies to overcome social, ethnic, religious and economic divisions. This book is a fresh exploration of the ontology of acts and is essential reading for any academic interested in religion, theology, film and citizenship studies.

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Table of contents

Introduction: Acts, Film, Religion: Context and Perspectives

1 Constituting a Figure of an Activist Citizen

2 I Act – Therefore I Am

3 I Create Therefore I Am: Towards The Cinema of Act

4 Constructing Activism Through Film: Creation of New Scene

5 Creation of Space – Unbroken Links Between the Citizens: Ana Arabia

6 Acts of Citizenship And The Foreign « Other »: Circles

7 Enacting (European) Citizenship Through Film: Inferno

8 Creating A Rupture: Wadjda

9 Conclusion: Creative Acts, Transformation and Activist Citizens

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Film-Religion-and-Activist-Citizens-An-ontology-of-transformative-acts/Radovic/p/book/9780367884505#:~:text=Film%20can%20be%20a%20socio,acts%20and%20activism%20are%20performed.&text=The%20author%20approaches%20film%20as,through%20which%20activist%20citizens%20emerge.

Conversion et spiritualités dans l’antiquité et au moyen âge

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Conversion et Spiritualité dans

l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge 

Michel Fattal, Paris: L’Harmmatan, 2017

Description

Comment comprendre le phénomène particulier de la conversion au sein de différentes formes de spiritualités issues de milieux culturels et linguistiques variés ? Le présent ouvrage procède à une lecture philosophique et à une analyse précise de la notion de conversion dans la philosophie grecque païenne de Platon et de Plotin, dans certains textes fondateurs du judaïsme et du christianisme, chez le Pseudo-Macaire et chez Augustin d’Hippone, ainsi que dans la philosophie arabo-musulmane représentée par Al-Farâbî et Al-Ghazâlî.

(Texte de la maison d’édition)

Lien

https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-conversion_et_spiritualites_dans_l_antiquite_et_au_moyen_age_michel_fattal-9782343125824-54168.html

Christianity at the Crossroads. How The Second Century Shaped The Future Of The Church

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Christianity at the Crossroads

How The Second Century Shaped The Future Of The Church

Michael J Kruger, Westmont: InterVarsity Press, 2017

 Description

It is the second century. Everyone who knew Jesus is now dead. Christianity has begun to spread, but there are serious threats to its survival. Christianity at the Crossroads examines the crucial issues that faced the second-century Church – a period often neglected or overlooked in other studies. It was during this period that the fledgling Church struggled to work out its identity and stay true to the vision of Christ and the apostles. Threatened by divisive controversies from within and fierce persecution from without, the Church’s response to these and other issues not only determined its survival; it was to shape the beliefs, values and lives of millions of Christians throughout the world over the next two millennia.

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Table of contents

Preface

List of abbreviations

Introduction – What is so important about the second century?

1 – A peculiar identity: The sociological make-up of second-century Christianity

2 – A strange superstition: The political and intellectual acceptability of second-century Christianity

3 – Worshipping Jesus: The ecclesiological structure of second-century Christianity

4 – Alternative pathways: Diversity in second-century Christianity

5 – The Great Church: Unity in second-century Christianity

6 – A textual culture: The literature of second-century Christianity

7 – A new Scripture: The new Testament canon in second-century Christianity

Conclusion

Link

https://www.ivpress.com/christianity-at-the-crossroads

Philosophical Approaches to Demonology

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Philosophical Approaches to Demonology

Benjamin W. McCraw & Robert Arp, London: Routledge, 2017

Description

In contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philosophical argument, debate, and dialogue involving ideas and topics in demonology. The contributors to the volume approach the subject from the perspective of the broadest areas of Western philosophy, namely metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and moral philosophy. The collection also features a plurality of religious, cultural, and theological views on the nature of demons from both Eastern and Western thought, in addition to views that may diverge from these traditional roots. Philosophical Approaches to Demonology will be of interest to philosophers of religion, theologians, and scholars working in philosophical theology and demonology, as well as historians, cultural anthropologists, and sociologists interested more broadly in the concept of demons.

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Table of contents

Introduction – Robert Arp and Benjamin W. McCraw

Part I. Demons in Christianity

1 Augustine and Aquinas on the Demonic – Benjamin W. McCraw

2 The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine – Seamus O’Neill

3 Christian Demonology: A New Philosophical Perspective – Shandon L. Guthrie

4 Women as « The Devil’s Gateway »: A Feminist Critique of Christian Demonology – Jeff Ewing

Part II. Non-Christian Conceptions of Demons

5 Socrates’ Demonic Sign (Daimonion Sēmeion) – Charlene Elsby

6 The Ecological Demon: Silent Running and Interstellar – Brian Willems

7 Demons of Seduction in Early Jewish Literature – Dawn Hutchinson

8 The Jinn and the Shayatīn – Edward Moad

9 Māra: Devāand Demon – Christopher Ketcham

Part III. Demons and Epistemological Issues

10 Justified Belief in the Existence of Demons is Impossible – David Kyle Johnson

11 Esoteric Spirituality, Devils and Demons: Introducing the Gnostic Vision of Modernity – Kristina Sipova

12 Re-Enchantment and Contemporary Demonology – Olli Petteri Pitkänen

Part IV. Demons in Moral and Social Philosophy

13 Whedon’s Demons: The Immorality of Moral Clarity and the Ethics of Moral Complexity – Talia Morag

14 Modern Representations of Evil: Kant, Arendt, and the Devil in Goethe’s Faust and Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita – Elvira Basevich

15 The Politics of Possession: Reading King James’s Daemonologie Through the Lens of Mimetic Realism – Duncan Reyburn

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Philosophical-Approaches-to-Demonology/McCraw-Arp/p/book/9780367595234#:~:text=Philosophical%20Approaches%20to%20Demonology%20will,in%20the%20concept%20of%20demons.

Épicure

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Épicure

La voix de la nature

Renée Koch Piettre, Paris: EntreLacs, 2017

Description

La sagesse d’Épicure a la prétention d’être l’expression directe de la nature. L’étude attentive des fondements du monde physique suffit à réaliser un but éthique et pratique : bâtir la vie heureuse dans une communauté ouverte et bienveillante. Les épicuriens philosophent ensemble pour discerner le plaisir à accueillir et les maux à rejeter, et par là atteindre un bonheur digne d’un dieu, à la portée de chacun. Leur sagesse traduit le « cri de la chair » ou, selon Lucrèce, un « aboiement de la nature » qui « ne réclame rien d’autre que de ne pas avoir mal et de jouir d’un plaisir libéré du souci et de la crainte ».

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Table de matières

Abréviations

Introduction

PREMIÈRE PARTIE – Fonder une éthique sur la physique

Chapitre I – Une vie en modèle dans la tourmente

  1. Mourir heureux
  2. Une méthode salvifique
  3. Vie d’Épicure
  4. L’enseignement au Jardin
  5. Non l’école, mais le vivre ensemble
  6. La sécurité au sein des tourbillons

Chapitre II – Une physique pour trouver la sérénité

  1. Choisir les mots pour dire le vrai. L’exemple des eidôla
  2. Comment on pense le vrai. Les critères
  3. Comment se produit l’erreur et comment l’éviter. Les inférences logiques
  4. Adêla, le non-manifeste. Atomes, vide, infini
  5. L’évidence du sensible
  6. Comment décrire les minima
  7. La nature de l’âme
  8. Propriétés, accidents et natures. La nature des astres : ils ne sont pas dieux
  9. Parcourir la (doctrine de la) nature à la vitesse de la pensée

Chapitre III – Le bonheur à la portée des hommes

  1. Suivre le plaisir, éviter la douleur
  2. Un libre penseur ?
  3. L’enseignement de la Lettre à Ménécée

DEUXIÈME PARTIE – Anthologie

  1. Les Maximes capitales
  2. Fragments de lettres à des proches et familiers
  3. Lettre à Hérodote
  4. Lettre à Ménécée

Repères chronologiques

Bibliographie

  1. Les textes
  2. Études et ouvrages collectifs et articles cités

Cahier photos

Lien

https://www.anhima.fr/spip.php?article1783&lang=fr

Hermès Trismégiste

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Hermès Trismégiste

Le messager divin

Anna Van Der Kerchove, Paris: Entre Lacs, 2017

Description

Hermès Trismégiste est une figure importante dans l’Antiquité durant les premiers siècles de l’ère commune. Il est considéré comme une figure de sagesse, et les écrits (les Hermetica) qui lui sont attribués font entendre sa voix et constituent une voie de salut pour ceux qui s’y engagent et qui croient en l’historicité du maître. Une véritable tradition hermétique se met ainsi en place, avec un enseignement et des pratiques rituels. Celle-ci eut des ramifications dans le monde musulman et aussi dans le monde occidental jusqu’à l’époque moderne. L’ouvrage a pour but de rendre plus accessibles une figure et des écrits qui sont pour le moment essentiellement connus des spécialistes. Il aborde aussi bien la figure d’Hermès Trismégiste, qui tient à la fois du dieu grec Hermès et du dieu égyptien Thot, que la «sagesse hermétique» qui est proposée dans les Hermetica. Hermès Trismégiste, une figure qui tient à la fois de la tradition grecque et de la tradition égyptienne, représente surtout une voie de sagesse, une voie d’immortalité qui prétend apporter le salut à ceux qui s’engagent dans cette voie.
C’est une voix qui se fait entendre à travers des écrits qui miment l’enseignement d’Hermès, lequel mime déjà la Révélation primordiale dont il aurait bénéficié. Cette voix se fait aussi probablement entendre à travers des maîtres historiques qui poursuivent la tradition hermétique.
En effet, il est difficile d’affilier la tradition hermétique à un culte spécifique ni à une « école » philosophique particulière, mais la tradition hermétique, qui se déploie dans le temps dans une grande diversité, emprunte à différents courants philosophico-religieux et s’adapte, afin de s’adresser au plus nombre, tout en ne voulant être accessible qu’aux plus dignes.

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Table de matières

Un maître de sagesse égyptien : Sources antiques pour parler d’Hermès Trismégiste et des hermétistes

Hermès Trismégiste, un sage égyptien

L’enseignement d’Hermès ou la voix d’Hermès

La voie d’Hermès, une voie de sagesse et de salut

Conclusion.

Anthologie :

Corpus Hermeticum I  

Corpus Hermeticum IV

Corpus Hermeticum V

Corpus Hermeticum X

Corpus Hermeticum XI

Corpus Hermeticum XIII

Corpus Hermeticum XIV

Corpus Hermeticum XVII

Asclépius

L’Ogdoade révèle l’Ennéade.

Lien

https://www.editions-tredaniel.com/hermes-trismegiste-le-messager-divin-p-7215.html

PLOTINUS Ennead II.9

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

PLOTINUS

Ennead II.9: Against the Gnostics

Plotinus, Sebastian Gertz (trad.), Las Vegas: Parmenides Publishing, 2017

Description

How was the universe created, and what is our place within it? These are the questions at the heart of Plotinus’ Against the Gnostics. For the Gnostics, the universe came into being as a result of the soul’s fall from intelligible reality—it is the evil outcome of a botched creation. Plotinus challenges this, and insists that the soul’s creation of the world is the necessary consequence of its contemplation of the ideal forms. While the Gnostics claim to despise the visible universe, Plotinus argues that such contempt displays their ignorance of the higher realities of which the cosmos is a beautiful image. Against the Gnostics is a polemical text. It aims to show the superiority of Plotinus’ philosophy over that of his Gnostic rivals, and poses unique challenges: Plotinus nowhere identifies his opponents by name, he does not set out their doctrines in any great detail, and his arguments are frequently elliptical. The detailed commentary provides a guide through these difficulties, making Plotinus’ meandering train of thought in this important treatise accessible to the reader.

(Text from the publisher)

Link

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.03.53/

The Routledge Guidebook to The New Testament

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

The Routledge Guidebook to The New Testament

Patrick Gray, London: Routledge, 2017

Description

As part of the Christian canon of scripture, the New Testament is one of the most influential works in history. Its impact can be seen in many different fields, but without an awareness of the historical, cultural, social, and intellectual context of early Christianity, it can be difficult for modern-day readers to fully understand what the first-century authors were trying to say and how the first readers of the New Testament would have understood these ideas. The Routledge Guidebook to the New Testament offers an academic introduction to the New Testament examining:

  • The social and historical context in which the New Testament was written
  • The primary text, supporting students in close analysis from a range of consensus positions
  • The contemporary reception and ongoing influence of the New Testament

With further reading suggestions, this guidebook is essential reading for all students of religion and philosophy, and all those wishing to engage with this important work.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

I. The Context of Early Christianity and the New Testament

II. The Literature of the New Testament: The Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles

Mark

Matthew

Luke-Acts

John

III. The Literature of the New Testament: Letters

The Letters of Paul

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1-2 Thessalonians

The Pastoral Epistles (1-2 Timothy, Titus)

Philemon

The Letter to the Hebrews

The General Epistles

James

1-2 Peter

1, 2, 3 John

Jude

IV. The Literature of the New Testament: Apocalyptic Literature

Revelation

V. Key Concepts

VI. General Issues

What do we know about the life of Jesus?

What language did Jesus speak?

How do we know what Jesus really said?

How should the miracles in the New Testament be understood?

Did Jesus found a new religion?

Is the New Testament anti-Semitic?

Who wrote the New Testament?

How do we know when the books of the New Testament were written?

Why does the New Testament contain (only) twenty-seven books?

How should one read the non-canonical writings?

How are the Dead Sea Scrolls related to the New Testament?

Should the New Testament be read « literally »?

What special methods do scholars use to interpret the New Testament?

VII. For Further Study

Bibliography

Index

Link

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Guidebook-to-The-New-Testament/Gray/p/book/9780415729048

Critical Spirituality

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Critical Spirituality

A holistic approach to contemporary practice

Westerink H. (eds.), London: Routledge, 2017

Description

A central issue in the study of the correlation between modernity, the turn to the religious subject and the history of mysticism, concerns the critical – some would argue ‘subversive’ – character and practice of mysticism and spirituality. Is this critical practice merely the resistance effect of the modern pastoral investment in the subject? Or is there something distinctive in mysticism and spirituality that draws it strength from various sources – knowledge, experience, desire or perhaps even one’s body – and operates from a specific position or ‘locus’? This volume explores these questions with the aim of developing a theory of critical spirituality, that is to say, of its historical appearances and its contemporary forms and characteristics.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Introduction

Spirituality as Critique – Michel de Certeau and Ignatian Spirituality – Inigo Bocken

The Troubled Thoughts of the Elect – A Certallian Reading of Willem Teellinck’s Soliloquium – Herman Westerink

Michel de Montaigne and Jean de Léry’s Scenes of Cannibalism – The Savage Other and the Making of Calvinist Identity – Herman Westerink

Critical Spirituality in Interreligious and Intercultural Contexts – Gerrit Steunebrink

Philosophie und Spiritualität aus der Erfahrung Lateinamerikas – Raúl Fornet-Betancourt

Das Prinzip “Barmherzigkeit” bei Jon Sobrino als konkretes Beispiel für eine Verbindung von Erkenntnis und Spiritualität – Helene Büchel

Engaged Contemplation – Dialogical Explorations of Critical Spirituality from a Monastic Perspective – Thomas Quartier

Postmodern Mystics – An Interpretation of the Occupy Movement from the Work of Michel de Certeau – Eveline van Buijtenen

Epilogue – Foucault, Certeau and the Building Blocks for a Theory of Critical Spirituality – Herman Westerink

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Spirituality-A-Holistic-Approach-to-Contemporary-Practice/Gardner/p/book/9781409427940#:~:text=Critical%20spirituality%20means%20seeing%20people,everyday%20but%20also%20transcends%20it.

Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics

Publié le par Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete

Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics

David J. Yount, London: Bloomsbury, 2017

Description

This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate experience that answers the most significant philosophical questions, David J. Yount provides an extended analysis of why we should interpret both philosophers as mystics. The book then moves on to demonstrate that both philosophers share a belief in non-discursive knowledge and the methods to attain it, including dialectic and recollection, and shows that they do not essentially differ on any significant views on ethics. Making extensive use of primary and secondary sources, Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology and Ethics shows the similarities between the thought of these two philosophers on a variety of philosophical questions, such as meditation, divination, wisdom, knowledge, truth, happiness and love.

(Text from the publisher)

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Ultimate Experience: The Evidence of Mysticism in Plato and Plotinus
2. Epistemology: Plato and Plotinus on Knowledge
3. Ethics: Plato and Plotinus on Happiness, How to Live, and How Not to Live
4. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index

Link

http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/plato-and-plotinus-on-mysticism-epistemology-and-ethics/